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Spice Islands

plural noun

  1. the former name of the Moluccas


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Tell Sara she is as good as a group of spice-islands to me; she wafts the pleasantest influences, even from a distance.

Thence he sailed to the Spice Islands, where he met with European merchants.

It was a trying occupation, the odour far exceeding in strength that of the Spice Islands.

If ichthyc variety is the spice of the angler's life, Sanibel and its sister keys are the Spice Islands.

His ship was wrecked, and the expedition came to an end, a few of the survivors reaching the Spice Islands in 1539.

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